What is the meaning of marking?

noun

• A distinguishing symbol.
  • usage: "the owner's mark was on all the sheep"
  • synonyms: marker, mark
• A pattern of marks.
• Evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score.
  • usage: "what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do"
  • synonyms: grading, scoring
• The act of making a visible mark on a surface.

verb

• Attach a tag or label to.
  • usage: "label these bottles"
  • synonyms: tag, label, mark
• Designate as if by a mark.
  • usage: "This sign marks the border"
  • synonyms: mark
• Be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense.
  • usage: "His modesty distinguishes him from his peers"
  • synonyms: distinguish, mark, differentiate
• Mark by some ceremony or observation.
  • usage: "The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade"
  • synonyms: commemorate, mark
• Make or leave a mark on.
  • usage: "the scouts marked the trail"; "ash marked the believers' foreheads"
  • synonyms: mark
• To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful.
  • usage: "He denounced the government action"; "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock"
  • synonyms: stigmatize, stigmatise, brand, denounce, mark
• Notice or perceive.
  • usage: "She noted that someone was following her"; "mark my words"
  • synonyms: notice, mark, note
• Mark with a scar.
  • usage: "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"
  • synonyms: scar, mark, pock, pit
• Make small marks into the surface of.
  • usage: "score the clay before firing it"
  • synonyms: score, nock, mark
• Establish as the highest level or best performance.
  • usage: "set a record"
  • synonyms: set, mark
• Make underscoring marks.
  • synonyms: score, mark
• Remove from a list.
  • usage: "Cross the name of the dead person off the list"
  • synonyms: cross off, cross out, strike out, strike off, mark
• Put a check mark on or near or next to.
  • usage: "Please check each name on the list"; "tick off the items"; "mark off the units"
  • synonyms: check, check off, mark, mark off, tick off, tick
• Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation.
  • usage: "grade tests"; "score the SAT essays"; "mark homework"
  • synonyms: grade, score, mark
• Insert punctuation marks into.
  • synonyms: punctuate, mark